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The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens
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filed under:
Beatrix Farrand,
Elizabeth Benson,
Gail Griffin,
Garden and Grounds,
Garden and Landscape Studies,
James Carder,
Joaquim Wolschke-Bulmahn,
John Beardsley,
John Dixon Hunt,
Josh Wilson,
Lovers' Lane Pool,
Margret Dawson,
Matthew O'Donnell,
Michel Conan,
Mildred Bliss,
Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle,
Susan Toby Evans,
William Howard Adams,
garden,
landscape
Maybe it was because it was dusk that I found myself feeling lost, even though I wasn’t lost at all. Gray powdery light silvered, softly, everything it touched, not to pacify it, but as if, with gentle correction, to rout matter altogether—trees, shrubs, and closing flowers, like so many eyelids nestled in sleep’s calyx, the stonework in […]
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Come on In: The Dumbarton Oaks Symposium
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filed under:
Byzantine Studies,
Caroline Backlund,
Dumbarton Oaks Papers,
Elizabeth Sgalitzer Ettinghausen,
Garden and Landscape Studies,
Glen Bowersock,
Inge Gaberman,
Josh Wilson,
Mildred Bliss,
Oleg Grabar,
Pre-Columbian Studies,
Richard Diehl,
Robin Cormack,
William Howard Adams,
symposia
If the scholars here at Dumbarton Oaks are the lifeblood of the institute as we know it—the necessities, the aerators of resources, the vital signs—then the symposia are the institute’s great lungs, chambers of commerce between the internal and external, between one scholar and her peers, between Dumbarton Oaks itself and a broader community: the […]
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Ms. Joan Southcote-Aston
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filed under:
Blissania,
Caroline Backlund,
Ernst Kitzinger,
Friends of Music,
Gary Vikan,
Giles Constable,
Herbert Kessler,
House Collection,
Irene Vaslef,
J. P. Morgan,
Jelisaveta "Seka" Allen,
Joan Southcote-Aston,
John Thacher,
Josh Wilson,
Mildred Bliss,
Princeton Index,
William Howard Adams,
friends of music
Were you to read through all of the transcribed interviews in the Dumbarton Oaks Oral History Project, there is one person in particular who could not fail to fascinate you, yet who is maybe, at last, too ephemeral to apprehend. D.O. Senior Fellow Herbert Kessler thinks that this woman—who underwent what can only be described […]